Bats Quotes

Failure makes excuses. Success just keeps swinging the bat.

The Indian bowlers picked me for sledging when I was batting well. They called me school boy. But I was enjoying it and I had answered it with my bat.

I owe my success to expansion pitching, a short right field fence, and my hollow bats.

Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.

When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than (Ty) Cobb.

The first question that comes out of everybody's mouth, 'Did you bite the head off a bat?' And I did, so, next.

But make no mistake: the weeds will win: nature bats last.

There is no one correct way to bat, and so of course there is no one correct stance for it.

I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.

I might be shy, but in the field, where I have to do my work, I do it. I let my bat speak for myself.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

It's slow. It's inch by inch. But nature always bats last. The planet isn't going anywhere.

On the bat’s back I do fly After summer merrily.

My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving.

Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.

There's no better sight on the cricket field than watch Tendulkar bat.

You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.

I'm always alright, as long as I've got [a bat].

Everybody has bad at-bats -- except McCutchen.

I feel like when I arrive at the hospital I want a glass of whiskey, I want the epidural in my back. And, I want to get hit in the face with a baseball bat...

Bowl better, Bat better, Catch better, communicate better... Just bloody play better.... I am now available for Selection of Australia..!!!!!

When you first assemble a group, it's not a team right off the bat. It's only a collection of individuals

I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.

I feel good. At this point, the only thing I'm trying to do is accumulate at-bats and get my work in, and so far that's what I'm doing.

It's good to find the barrel of the bat again.

Tara (Lipinski) got out there like a bat out of hell and skated her guts out. Michelle skated very well, but she skated conservatively. She skated great, just not fantastic. That was the difference.

The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.

He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed.....it's like he has cork in his arms.

When we are youths in the Dominican, we pick up bats and balls because baseball is part of what we grow up with. The fun feeling you get playing keeps your head up when you encounter difficult times.

When you go to bat as many times as I do, you're bound to get a good average. That's why I keep my projects diversified.

If you go out to bat against Australia, they come at you hard.

I'm not someone who needs to bat and bat to be in form.

If I'm playing well I'll get through a bat in three weeks. I batter them.

I always listen to music before I go out to bat. Any track, really, just whatever I feel like at the time.

We thought of ourselves as musical terrorists at shows - were weren't biting heads off bats, but we wanted to annoy and confront people.

I think of myself as 'catching' the ball with my bat and letting the pitcher supply the power.

We could get kinky and see how bats and rats make love, he suggested in a whisper, warm breath against her neck. You are a sick man, Jacques. Very, very sick.

Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep; And disgustingly upside down. Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags And grinning in their sleep. Bats!

At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats By the Ponte Vecchio . . . Changing guard.

We'll probably only consider a handful of individuals. We'll bring up people who can accumulate either innings or at-bats, so we can hopefully gauge where they stand as a prospective Major Leaguer.

To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that.

Now go away, or I'll get my friends the Bats to bite you.

The fans know that I don't give at-bats away.

Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.

Isn't it odd? A guy bats .301 and has 35 homers. Then everybody starts to tell him what a good fielder he has become.

I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat.

Everyone in my grade is turning 13, so there are bunches of bar and bat mitzvahs. They're very dressy. It's fun picking out outfits. One girl, for her bat mitzvah, wore a huge red ball gown!

I dont know about happily ever after... but I know about happily, Weetzie Bat thought.

I'm trying to put together quality at-bats and hit the ball hard somewhere.

Every at-bat, I try to hit the ball. I don't like to strike out. I put the ball in play a lot, so I'll take the hits as they come.